Fuel consumption?

drzeus · 10-22-2007, 12:14 PM

I was wondering since quite a few of us have had our Cee'ds for a little while now, could we have a round up of how the fuel consumption has been so far? Perhaps we could put in fuel type (dies/UL), then the data from the Cee'd's meter i.e. ave. speed (not instant LOL), ave. consumption, total distance travelled, (road type - mountains, urban-traffic, motorway, mixed?)

I was pleased with mine (it has gone down to 7.2 l/100 km) till I converted it to mpg (mind you a lot of you folk have CRD's so no comparison!) So I was wondering what is happening to others generally.

PetroL · 10-22-2007, 12:30 PM

I can recomend this site to monitor the consumption, Mileage Calculator and Vehicle's Costs Analyser
Just sign in!

You can also make a link to your signature in your post's here, e.g, 7.2l/100km.

drzeus · 11-08-2007, 08:19 AM

Oooo cool, I must play with that! I hadn't got round to posting my own data cos I have been swamped - but since I gave myself the afternoon off:

1.4 l petrol engine
total km travelled 3667
average consumption 7.2 l/100
average speed (

) 49 km/h (convert that to mph and fall about laughing!)

Half of total km or more was mountain roads. So not too bad. Having reset it all (yeah I found how to do all that

) will be interesting to see how it goes. A quick run up to work and back (50 km round trip) brought l/100 km to 6.3, which is a lot better.

tim_p · 11-08-2007, 12:59 PM

I really wish it had two trips - one you could reset on a daily (or whatever) basis and another storing the consumption / speed etc from day 1 - that'd be really interesting. Perversely, I do enjoy seeing how many mpg I can manage but doing that leaves me a bit underwhelmed. Best I've had on a shortish (50 miles) trip has been 57-isd mpg. Driving in my normal fashion which usually involves spirited overtakes when possible, I usually get 50-52. I don't speed in 30,40 or 50 limits but consider the NSL as fair game!Never seen anything over 58 on the computer. The wife doing short trips kills it stone dead, often taking it below 50. I can see you could get up to 60 but you'd need to drive pretty slow, very smooth and never go above something like 56 in top. You'd probably be like the Rover drivers wearing a hat, driving gloves and carrying a box of tissues on the parcel shelf, you know the ones, they go 43mph everywhere, no matter what the limit.

richs · 11-08-2007, 02:03 PM

Yep Tim, my mpg is exactly as yours in the conditions you describe.

Like the reference to rover. When I had company cars, got a Rover 214 Gsi when they were like really popular - like WoW, 1.4 K series engine, designed in Britain. I only got it 'cos my Dad wanted one, and I knew I the company would sell it to me for peanuts after 2 years.

Man, the car was a crock of sht. It wasn't a Friday car, it was built as well as all others - just it was crp anyway 'cos it was Rover. Everything about it was slow - not just the engine; the wipers; the electric windows... I could cause queues at toll bridges 'cos of those rover windows.

Good riddance to rover - glad the chinese got it. Hee Hee

tim_p · 11-08-2007, 02:27 PM

I was really hoping for better mpg, particularly afterreading on here of figures in excess of 60. I think I was getting better out of the 3 day test drive car too, seem to recall it had 52 showing and I got it up to 55 over the three days doing just the journeys I described above. I guess it must be down to individual cars. Maybe I'll mention it on it's first service!

soggydog · 11-08-2007, 03:16 PM

My 1.6 Petrol is averaging 41mpg, 32 round the town and 45 at a steady 80-85 on the motorway. Not bad for a 1.6 petrol, but boy it needs a 6th gear.....

asty · 11-09-2007, 01:53 PM

I've done 1,000 miles in my SW diesel and generally getting 51-52 mpg on my 30 mile commute on 95% dual carriage way at 50-80 mph. I would expect a diesel to take a while to bed in but it better average 60+ on a long journey after 4,000 miles on the clock or I'll be pretty p*ssed off.

And who was the person mentioning 'spirited overtakes' further up the thread? Is that possible in a Cee'd? Ok, so it has way more torque than the equivalent Megane but steady with the exaggerations eh ;o)

tim_p · 11-09-2007, 02:41 PM

To get 60 mpg you're gonna have to drive like a wuss!

Twas I who mentioning 'spirited overtakes'! Round here anything that crosses the central (dotted) white line counts as 'spirited' - it was meant more in terms of 'throttle to the floor' which results in the mpg-o-meter going into free-fall.

richs · 11-09-2007, 03:37 PM

Just been Swindon to Devon and back tonight (daughter pickup - contact weekend).

The trip is 200 miles round.

Going down I go from work which means A303 all the way apart from 2 junctions on M5. My average over the 100 miles going there was 52.1 (That's some sluggish bits, mostly 50-60 and some 80 spurts.

Coming back I was all motorway - M5 then M4 - and didn't reset. The overall 200 miles gave an average of 49.1 at the end. The difference was I did 80 all the way (or 78 as my sat nav correctly stated).

So I reckon for the petrol to do 45 when doing 80-85 is damm good.